What promises of rehabilitation? Who made that promise? I don't buy it. My personal view is that _most_ people in prison are there from personal choices, and are not going to change their ways.
Recidavism is something like 85 percent. That means that 85 percent of people getting out of jail are going to commit another crime. But the reality is worse than that. I can't find the statistics right now (you know, when they would be useful), but I remember that 98 percent of crime is committed by someone who has already been through the "justice" system for previous crimes. Since I can't puch the guy that broke into my car and stole everything (that would be assault and battery), I'm glad to know that somewhere down the line (after he is arrested once for each 5 or 6 crimes he commits, and is convicted and jailed once for every 3 arrests) he will get paid back just a little by Bubba. Grrrrr. Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/05/03 01:29PM >>> I've heard that statistically people who've been to prison are more likely to commit crime rather than being less likely after having the experience of being in prison... Personally -- if this is true -- I'd rather see some effort toward making the prison system live up to promises of rehabilitation. ike > I don't think I support this law. One of the great > deterrents against people > going back out and committing crimes again is prison rape. > In addition, because > it's so widely known, it's even a deterrent before someone > commits a crime in > the first place. If you knew that you'd be the sex toy of > some 400 pound slab of > meat named bubba, you'd avoid crime like the plague. > "You do the crime, you get gang raped up the @ss. Crime > doesn't pay." >> http://www.spr.org/en/pressreleases/2003/0904.html >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 > Subscription: > http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubsc > ribe.cfm?user=633.558.5 > Get the mailserver that powers this list at > http://www.coolfusion.com s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 team macromedia volunteer http://www.macromedia.com/go/team chief architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to onTap is open source http://www.turnkey.to/ontap ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
